Wikivoyage:Airport Expedition/TLAs
Intro
[edit]Airport codes
[edit]This list of Three Letter Acronyms is mainly referencing IATA airport codes used in the template {{IATA}} and of redirect pages to airport articles and By plane sections of city articles for small and medium sized airports.
Exceptions to airport codes are
[edit]- ACT Canberra not Waco Regional Airport
- BAM Baikal-Amur Mainline not Battle Mountain Airport
- BVI British Virgin Islands but also used for Birdsville Airport
- CDO Cagayan de Oro not Cradock Airport
- CIS Commonwealth of Independent States not Canton Island Airport
- CRH goes to High-speed rail in China not Cherrabah Airport
- DRC Democratic Republic of the Congo not Dirico Airport
- GTA Greater Toronto Area, not Gatokae Aerodrome. YTO is the multiple airport code for Toronto-York-Peel.
- GPS GPS navigation, not Seymour Airport
- KKH Karakoram Highway, not Kongiganak Airport
- KLM Airlines, not Kalaleh Airport
- KTX High-speed rail in South Korea, not Koutiala Airport
- NYC abbreviation for city but also used as IATA code for airports in the area
- NFL American football, not NAS Fallon
- PRC China, not Ernest A. Love Field
- PRD Pearl River Delta, not Pardoo Airport
- PNG Papua New Guinea, not Santos Dumont Airport
- PKK Phou Khao Khouay National Protected Area, not Pakokku Airport
- RDC Democratic Republic of the Congo, not Redenção Airport
- UAE United Arab Emirates, not Mount Aue Airport
- USA used for country and not Concord Regional Airport
- EEA Europe, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- EEC European Union, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- FKK Naturism, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- HIV Infectious diseases, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- ICE Rail travel in Germany, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NHL Ice hockey in North America, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NJP Siliguri, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NKR Nagorno-Karabakh, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NYS New York (state), which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NRW North Rhine-Westphalia, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- NSW New South Wales, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- PWC Prince William County, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- QLD Queensland, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- UDT Udumalaippettai, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- UFO Unidentified flying objects, which is not used as an IATA airport code. Area 51 has an ICAO code but isn't on IATA.
- WDW Walt Disney World, which is not used as an IATA airport code
Disambiguation pages
[edit]- CAR goes to Car not Caribou Municipal Airport
- DMZ which is not used as an IATA airport code
- FSM Federated States of Micronesia and Fort Smith Regional Airport
- KSA Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Kosrae Airport
- ROC the airport code for Rochester, New York also the Republic of China, holding de facto control over Taiwan
- TAS Tasmania and Tashkent International Airport
- VIC not Vicenza Airport
- YHA
Wikivoyage shortcuts
[edit]- EDP Wikivoyage:Non-free content, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- FAQ Wikivoyage:FAQ, not Frieda River Airport
- MOS Wikivoyage:Manual of style, not Moses Point Airport
- POV Wikivoyage:Be fair, no Prešov Air Base
- SEO Wikivoyage:Don't tout, not Séguéla Airpor
- NOT Wikivoyage:What is an article? is also Marin County airport
- TDF Wikivoyage:Time and date formats, which is not used as an IATA airport code
- VFD Wikivoyage:Votes for deletion, which is not used as an IATA airport code